Sentence examples for a contingent one from inspiring English sources

In other words, it turns out (not as a conceptual matter, but as a contingent one) that the real forces in question consist in physiological processes.

However, in order to work, such a response would need to show that the inconsistency was essential to the values in question, not merely a contingent one that could disappear leaving the values consistently held — and this it probably cannot do.

He also offered a three-year lease, contingent on one of their daughters vacating a rent-stabilized apartment she occupies in the building.

Fourth, there's the problem that access to care in a free market health care system is completely contingent on one's ability to pay for it.

Furthermore, influencing the policy process may also be contingent on one's position in the political hierarchy far more than one's knowledge and understanding of the issue.

But the plans are contingent on one factor: the water must still be there.

The past several months have proven that consumer demand for location services is contingent on one thing: the ability to "check-in".

"It's a contingent fact that one is born one thing and not another.

The problem (cf., Sidelle 2002, 311) is that they too make distinctions between necessary truths and contingent ones, and even seem to rely on considerations of conceivability to do so.

It is therefore important to assess the degree of conditionality of liabilities – actual financial debt obligations should be weighted much more heavily than contingent ones (such as the risk of a banking sector bail-out) or even more implicit, longer-term liabilities (such as unfunded pension liabilities).

The House began grinding toward the addition of measures that would make further financing of the government contingent on a one-year delay of President Obama's health care law and a repeal of one of the taxes that finances it — with a late night ahead.